Family Of 5 Dangerously Dangles Over Dam’s 20-Foot Drop When Boat’s Motor Fails

Jess grew up in Oklahoma before moving to New York to become a writer. She has a cat named Agnes.

A family in Virginia recently experienced one of the worst nightmares imaginable while tooling around in their fishing boat. The motor suddenly failed, leaving them stranded to drift across the water.

As stressful as that would be in any circumstance, the two adults and three children in the clip below were also dangerously close to the 20-foot drop of the Goose Creek Reservoir Dam — and one of the adults was without a life jacket.

Thankfully, they had a phone with a strong signal to contact emergency units, who rushed over immediately. But as you can see in the photos from the scene, their boat still managed to teeter over the edge of the reservoir.